M0000253: Nachet collection: brass and mother-of-pearl spy glass

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Nachet collection: spy glass, brass, mother-of-pearl body.

Image of a spy glass made of brass with a mother-of-pearl body, probably made in the eighteenth century. The Nachet Collection was a large set of microscopes collected by Albert Nachet and acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum (accession 67378). The item is not held by Wellcome Collection.

August 1929

2 photographs glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm photographic print; 10 x 15 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the Nachet Collection dossier

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.